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  • ANTH 20030: World Religions in Christian Perspective

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    The course examines the foundations of several world religious traditions (e.g., Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism). Focusing on key religious ideas and practices, it compares and contrasts them with one another and in relation to the Christian design for life worked out in Catholic experience and theological reflection.
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  • ANTH 20041: Musics and Cultures of the Non-West

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course introduces a wide variety of musical systems, emphasizing the integration of culture-specific concepts about musical sound with the particular historical, social, and political contexts that shape and are shaped by that sound. Select musical case studies from South Asia, Africa, and Latin America will be explored and juxtaposed to reveal relationships to relevant themes such as nationalism, migration/diaspora, spirituality, the social position of music/musicians, improvisation, and social protest. No background in music is required, only open ears and minds.
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  • ANTH 20045: Appreciating World Music

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course introduces studetns to the methods for conduction field research, reviewing live musical events and evaluating World Music recordings. Through discussions about music from South Africa, Mexico, the Philipines, Indonesia and China, students learn about the musical practices of these other cultures anc understand their motivations for musical production. Challenges faced by musicians from colonialism, racism, nationalism, cultural imperialism and commercialism are also engaged. In addition, students are encouraged to "discover" world music among the diasporic communities within their own societies, and get the opportunity to perform music of some of the cultures studied.
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  • ANTH 20046: Music and Globalization in Asia

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course explores musical production in India and China, the "new cultural cores" that are gradually replacing the USA and Western Europe in cultural influence in Asia and the Asian disapora. Taking into account these countries' colonial and semi-colonial histories, their political and econocmic development, and the increasing transnational movement of their citizens, this course charts the development of commerically successful music from these countries - bhangra; Bollywood; Chinese pop; and fusion music popularized by bands like Twelve Girl Band and composers like Tan Dun in films like Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - that have not only captured Asia but the West as well, and shaped the Imagination of what Indian-ness and Chinese-ness are, both to the Chinese/Indians and non-Chinese/Indians. In addition, this course examines Fillipino entertainers, a group of musicians who provide live entertainment of a transnational capacity throughout Asia. They represent important channels for the dissemination of Indian and Chinese popular music in that region. Globalization and cosmopolitanism theories will be disccused in this course.
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  • ANTH 20047: Music of Africa and the African Dispora

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Students explore music from West Africa, Southern Africa, East Africa, and the Carribean, South America, and the United States, paying close attention to how their reception and performance informa nd influence each other historically and contextually. The seminar emphasizes an interdisciplinary approach to the subject, drawing from the ethnomusicology, African and African American studies, anthropology, colonial and postcolonial studies.
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  • ANTH 20048: Music & World Religions

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Throught this esthomuscology course students will learan the roles m usic occupies in owrld religions. More than a world music course, we will examine the creative expression of the divine through the universal language of organized sound as music plays a major role in practive of most religions worldwide. This study involves all the major continents, highlighting new perspectives as to the confluence between religious culture and musical expression. Knowledge of music is beneficial but not required, just open ears and minds to the diverse ontological understandings comprimising various worldviews.
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  • ANTH 20076: Ballads to Hip-Hop: Music, Culture, and Society in Mexican America

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This course is designed to introduce students to important historical and stylistic musical developments as part of the cultural experience of ethnic Mexicans in the United States. To this end, we examine both music-making and performance as aesthetic dialects of the social texture of "everyday life". We will cover various styles and genres, including corridos (the Mexican ballad form), Chicano rock `n- roll and hip-hop, jazz, and contemporary folk-derived styles (i.e. Banda, Pasito Duranguense, Norteño) with attention to their historical, political, and musical significance. In order we achieve our aims, the course is organized along two axes: one chronological, the other conceptual - neither complete. The chronological portion will allow us to survey the various genres, styles, and ensembles of ethnic Mexican musical production. We dovetail this effort with a focus on important themes and concepts, identity, race, gender, migration, hybridity, that pertain to the present and historical social conditions of this community. Our approach, such that we are dealing with music-cultures, is at once anthropological and ethnomusicological, yet we are guided more broadly, by the paradigm of cultural studies, as we interrogate the expressive terrain where history, language, performance, and social bodies intersect.
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  • ANTH 20100: Human Origins and Evolution

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    This is a course for non-majors/minors in anthropology on the current state of research on human origins. It is pitched at a general audience assuming no background other than capable critical thinking and writing skills. The course will be structured around key questions about human evolution. What is evolutionary theory and how does it contrast with other ways of explaining humanity's place in nature? How do we go about finding and identifying fossil human ancestors? How do we know their antiquity, and what clues are there about the behavior of our forbears? In particular, when and why did they start walking upright, making tools, building living shelters, populate different parts of the world, and master fire? What, if anything, does our evolutionary past imply about our modern lifestyles and the biological variation in current human populations? Finally, what is the future of human evolution?
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  • ANTH 20105: Introduction to Human Ethology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    Human ethology studies various aspects of human development, not just within our own culture, but also across diverse cultures. This science is most unique because it looks at both evolutionary processes and the behavior of monkeys and apes to more holistically understand contemporary human behavior. For example, using cross-cultural and cross-species data, this course conducts an exploration of the cultural and evolutionary origins of language, non-verbal communication, laughter, sleep, deception, morality, infant behavior, parenting, human aggression, sexual behavior, gender development, and human courtship rituals.
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  • ANTH 20109: Introduction to Anthropology

    3.00 Credits
    University of Notre Dame

    An introduction to one of the most exciting of the social sciences. Anthropology helps answer some of the most basic questions about ourselves and others - How and why did humans evolve? How did human culture develop, and why does there appear to be so many differences between cultures? How did human communication come about? Is language understood only in terms of words? How does it affect our ability to perceive the "real" world? Why are there so many different cultures? Are human behavior and human nature best explained by reference to genes, race, adaptation to environment, or to the symbolic nature of culture itself? Exploring the answers to these questions offers students a fascinating opportunity to learn more about their own as well as other cultures. Regardless of whether the student's major is science, engineering, business or the liberal arts, Anthropology 20109 is an elective of significance to a liberal education.
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